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Fox’s popular high school musical comedy, “Glee,” will not only feature a new look next season, it will air in a new time slot on Thursday nights and welcome a pair of big-name guest stars.

The “Glee” news was revealed Monday in New York as part of Fox’s unveiling of a fall lineup that features two new comedies and a freshman drama.

Next fall, “Glee” will air at 9 p.m. on Thursdays, following “The X Factor,” which officially introduced Britney Spears and Demi Lovato as new judges under a revamping by Simon Cowell.

“Glee,” which is graduating several of its key characters in its season finale next week, will feature a “show-within-a-show” format in the fall, according to creator Ryan Murphy, and bring on Kate Hudson and Sarah Jessica Parker in multi-episode guest star stints.

Murphy said in a conference call that “Glee” will follow some of the McKinley High graduates as they attend the New York performing arts school while also “adding some new faces” back in Ohio.

No details were provided on what kind of characters Hudson and Parker will play.

To make room for “Glee,” Kiefer Sutherland’s number-crunching drama, “Touch,” will shift to Fridays, where it will lead into the final season of “Fringe.”

Among the new Fox shows is “The Mindy Project,” a single-camera sitcom created by and starring Mindy Kaling (“The Office”) about a young politically incorrect woman looking for love. The other comedy
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